Ralph, We do not use the boats water supply to drink, cook or wash our mouths. We carry bottled water to drink and rinse after brushing teeth, etc. Around here in Louisville, KY, it freezes very hard sometimes during the winter from the teens this past winter to zero occasionally. I use RV antifreeze to winterize the water system and add water and chlorine in the spring to clean it out. We just use boat water to rinse dishes and to flush the head, boat water being better than river/marina water.
Im not sure what the winters are like where you live. Do you feel the products you mention will deal with RV antifreeze so that we may drink our boat water? Regards, John Emmerich 5874 Fortitude -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ralph E. Ahseln Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 3:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: catalina27-talk: Reconditioning fresh water system Doug, Been there... done the following.... Replace all the Vinyl hoses If possible Hand scrub the inside of the tank ( I installed a large inspection port in the top of the tank). Wash and Rinse with the following .. Oxi-clean or any Carbonate Cleaning product... ( for years I've tried to convince boat owners to use the Cleaner used in Beer and Wine making.Some them don't even need to be rinsed away.... But it's hard to change the thinking of some).. If you need to sterilize the tank... You can use Wine/Beer sulfate tablets or powder. Check the Yellow Pages for a Wine/Beer making supply store.. Most folks recommend BLEACH.. but the smell stays in the hoses and I hate that Chlorine stink. But, Some folks swear by it.. If you do use it.. use a SMALL amount and rinse it many times. I personally never used Chlorine bleach chemicals in my boat's drinking water supply. If you can't Hand scrub.. Fill the tank to FULL with the Cleaning solution and allow it to Slosh around for a couple days .. then rinse out.. IF you do use a Chlorine Bleach .. Buy a BRITTA filter pitcher and use that water for all drinking.. Britta removes most of the Chlorine smell/taste.. Good luck ...and.... UW Ralph Ahseln "Oblio" Gresham OR.
